Tag Archives: David Sylvian

Merry Christmas Mr. Linton: Fluid Japan And Jan Linton Team Once More For Cover Of “Forbidden Colours”

Posted on December 30, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Jan Linton + Fluid Japan: Forbidden Colours – HK/US – DL [2025] Last winter we enjoyed the crystalline beauty of Fluid Japan’s cover of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,” where Fluid Japan, working with a piano recording by Reiko … Continue reading →

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Record Store Day 2025 – The UK Edition

Posted on April 11, 2025 by postpunkmonk

It’s hard to believe that for last year’s Record Store Day, I was actually in the UK for once, and found myself at a store in Liverpool the next day and bought the Steven Wilson Ultravox “Lament” remix EP. Stupidly, … Continue reading →

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UK’s Record Store Day 2024 Still Surprises

Posted on February 29, 2024 by postpunkmonk

There were so many things of interest in the US that that I wondered… if the US was getting the Core Collection likes of OMD and Ultravox, what, if anything, would be UK-only items of interest? I needn’t have worried, … Continue reading →

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Want List: David Sylvian Preparing Comprehensive Box Of Mature Period Samadhisound Albums

Posted on June 23, 2023 by postpunkmonk

I was jolted from my David Sylvian coma yesterday with the arrival of an email touting a new BSOG of Sylvian’s Samadhisound projects in an elaborate [how could it be any other way?] ten disc set entitled “2003-2014 Do You … Continue reading →

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CD-3 Files: David Sylvian + Ryuichi Sakamoto – Forbidden Colours

Posted on November 16, 2020 by postpunkmonk

David Sylvian + Ryuichi Sakamoto: Forbidden Colours – UK – CD-3 – [1988] Forbidden Colours [1983 version] 4:42 Bamboo Houses [12″ ver.] 5:26 Bamboo Music [12″ ver.] 5:41 Today I was at a loss to pick a blog topic, so … Continue reading →

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Book Review: JAPAN – A Foreign Place [The Biography 1974-1984] [part 1]

Posted on January 22, 2020 by postpunkmonk

I finally bought copies of this book from the UK last summer for gift giving purposes. I knew several friends who should have copies of this in their library and I piggybacked my purchase with one of the others to … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Mick Karn – Dreams Of Reason Produce Monsters

Posted on February 7, 2019 by postpunkmonk

Mick Karn: Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters UK CD [1987] First Impression Language Of Ritual Buoy Land The Three Fates When Love Walks In Dreams Of Reason Answer When JAPAN fissured into various splinters, I did not immediately pursue Mick … Continue reading →

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